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Irish Volunteers Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0026
Abstract

Organized in Charleston, South Carolina about 1798, the Irish Volunteers Company was first on active service in the War of 1812 where they served on patrol and constructed defenses. This collection contains typescript copies of "The History of the Irish Volunteers Company" (1798-1836) and minutes from organizational meetings from 1884-1901 and 1915-1929. They were transcribed during a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) project from 1935 to 1937.

Dates: 1798-1929

Iseman family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1073
Collection Overview

This collection contains information pertaining to the Iseman family. The first box includes letters, genealogical research, photocopies, photographs, and correspondence related to the Iseman family. The second box contains biographical files of Iseman family members, including family genealogy notes.

Dates: 1961-1996

Izard arithmetic workbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0078
Collection Overview Arithmetic workbook containing word problems attributed to a member of the Ralph Izard family. Exercises include problems in the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of money (pounds, crowns, guineas, marks, guilders, and other units) and other items. Additional problems pertain to the measurement of cloth, wine, time, land (furlongs, poles, feet, inches), Troy weight (grains, ingots), tare and trett (allowance claimed by the citizens of London on goods), the rule of three...
Dates: approximately 1800s

Cambridge Jenkins collection

 Collection
Identifier: 30031
Abstract Cambridge Jenkins, Jr., joined the Charleston Police Department in 1950, becoming one of the first African American policemen in the Department. With a promotion in 1955 he became the first African- American detective on that force. He joined the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in 1961. Detective Jenkins later returned to the Charleston Police Department until 1963. He was appointed as the first minority United State Deputy Marshall for the Southeastern District of South Carolina. He...
Dates: 1926 - 1994

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

Jenkins Orphanage papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980

Jewish Community Center papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1063
Collection Overview The administrative files mostly document planning for, financing, and building the new Jewish Community Center in suburban Charleston; with blueprints, architects Simons, Lapham, Mitchell and Small correspondence and a small amount of history. The largest series contains photographs documenting Jewish life and Jewish Community Center activities, ca. 1945 to 1998. Original order, when possible, was kept, there being topical and biographical files (including images, 1980s-1990s, of Russian...
Dates: 1920-1998

John Fraser & Co. receipt

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-115
Collection Overview

The receipt is for a transaction in which Thomas Barksdale sold Sea Island cotton to Buchanan, Wood & Co. The receipt records the expenses that John Fraser & Co. charged for storing and weighing the cotton. It was issued on June 4, 1821.

Dates: 1821

David Karesh letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-014
Collection Overview Collection includes seven letters from David Karesh to Frank and Nettie Levenson of Bishopville, South Carolina. The letters were written in Yiddish, and English translations are included. Karesh often traveled from Columbia to Bishopville to provide the family (and friends and relatives) with kosher meat. Letters contain Karesh's expressions of thanks for the Levenson's hospitality, mentions of his work at the slaughterhouse, comments on assimilation of American Jews, reform among Jews, and...
Dates: 1949-1957

Keating Simons & Sons (Charleston, S.C.) letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-031
Collection Overview Eight page gathering entitled "Copies of letters, &c." contains handwritten copies of the business letters of Edward P. Simons of Keating Simons & Sons. The first six letters (23 June 1821) inform individuals that they will sustain no injury from the theft of the bonds and notes of Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu that were stolen from the Counting House of Keating Simons & Sons. The first letter is to Captain Donald Rowe concerning his agreement to purchase land on Edisto...
Dates: 1821-1822

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correspondence 28
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photographs 15
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 9
minutes (administrative records) 9
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
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South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 7
letters (correspondence) 7
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financial records 5
manuscripts for publication 5
photocopies 5
typescripts 5
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 4
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 4
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 4
South Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Miscellanea 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 4
journals (accounts) 4
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legal documents 4
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printed ephemera 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 3
African Americans -- History 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Charleston (S.C.) 3
Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 3
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 3
Jews -- South Carolina -- History 3
Law enforcement -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 3
Political action committees -- South Carolina 3
South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 3
South Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Miscellanea 3
broadsides (notices) 3
deeds 3
family papers 3
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plantation owners 3
poems 3
receipts (financial records) 3
speeches (documents) 3
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History 2
American newspapers -- Miscellanea 2
Archives 2
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Charleston County (S.C.) 2
Decedents' estates -- South Carolina 2
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Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
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Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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Jewish college students -- South Carolina -- History 2
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Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
Kosher food -- South Carolina -- History 2
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News and courier (Charleston, S.C. : Daily) 2
Plantation life -- South Carolina 2
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Plantations -- South Carolina -- Berkeley County 2
Political parties -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 2
Shehitah 2
Slave records -- South Carolina 2
Slavery -- South Carolina 2
South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
South Carolina -- History -- Civil war, 1861-1865 -- Miscellanea 2
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